Developer Meetup tonight @ Paypal in San Jose, CA

by Quinton Wall on July 12, 2010 at 10:31 AM

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Here is one of my favorite stories from the Tao of Programming to start the week: There once was a man who went to a computer trade show. Each day as he entered, the man told the guard at the door:"I am a great thief, renowned for my feats of shoplifting. Be forewarned, for this trade show shall not escape unplundered."This speech disturbed the guard greatly, because there were millions of dollars of computer equipment...
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Using Facebook Social Widgets on Force.com Sites pages

by Quinton Wall on June 14, 2010 at 09:57 AM

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Looking to add Facebook Social Components such as Like and Recommendations to your Force.com Sites Page? Take a lot at my initial iteration of updating the Facebook Toolkit for Force.com
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De-mystifying & optimizing view state

by Nick Simha on June 11, 2010 at 11:46 AM

HTTP is a stateless protocol. Your Visualforce pages though may need to maintain state across multiple HTTP requests / postbacks. Visualforce automatically does this for you with view state making your job as a developer easier. Find out more about what is in view state, the new view state inspector in Summer '10 and best practices for optimizing view state for page performance in this article .
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Force.com At The eBay Developer Conference This Wednesday

by Quinton Wall on June 7, 2010 at 08:45 AM

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This week, June 8-10th eBay is hosting their annual Developer Conference in San Jose CA. This conference is typically a great event which speaks directly to the power of the web as an e-commerce platform now, and in the near future. On Wednesday, June 9th at 11:10 I am co-presenting with Jon Jessup, CEO of Cloud Conversion. The title of the session is Leveraging the Power of the Force.
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URL Rewriting with Sites

by Umit Yalcinalp on May 5, 2010 at 05:21 PM

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Summer 2010 release brings yet another requested feature to the platform. With this new feature, sites developers and administrators can tailor custom URLs to refer to their pages instead of utilizing Salesforce.com generated URLs by using programmatic mapping. This feature is geared for Sites developers and administrators and require using Visual Force pages. In this blog, I will describe this feature and how you can utilize it with a running example. I will conclude by...
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Want to Speak at Dreamforce 2010?

by Dave Carroll on April 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM

Tired of hearing me and Ron Hess tell you about the Force.com platform? Well do something about it! Submit your paper for consideration to the Dreamforce 2010 Call for Papers. We are looking for developers and other Force.com experts who will inspire and educate the rest of the Developer Community. If you have best practices to share, a cool app that you've built, an amazing and useful integration to another cloud or a unique way...
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Adding Payment and Account Management to Force.com

by Dave Carroll on April 2, 2010 at 02:07 PM

I had the great pleasure yesterday of attending a great presentation by Praveen Alavilli (@ppalavilli) on the new Force.com for PayPal X Adaptive Payments Platform toolkit. PayPal has taken on the work of making a set of Apex Classes and Custom objects available for developers to use to add commerce activities to any application built on Force.com. I had a chance to take the toolkit for a test drive last week. Once you have setup...
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Implementing a Data Driven Menu Using jQuery

by Dave Carroll on January 13, 2010 at 11:58 AM

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A couple of days ago a colleague of mine forwarded a rant post by a developer new to the Force.com platform. Seems this developer is an ace at Cold Fusion but is now trying his hand at Apex and Visualforce. The problem that he described in his post was around generating a dynamic, data driven menu-type navigation system for his page. In this post I will present one method of doing this. This is likely...
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Every Site has a Guest User with its own Time Zone

by Jon Mountjoy on November 23, 2009 at 05:13 AM

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A lesson learned during Dreamforce - be sure to keep the local time zone of a Site in mind when time is of the essence.
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Passing Javascript values to Apex Controller

by Dave Carroll on October 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM

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Wes Nolte posted a great tip on his blog Silver Lining on passing javascript values to an Apex controller. After reading his post I realized that there is another way to skin that cat using ActionFunction and Param tags. ActionFunction results in a javascript function being rendered on the page. Once that function is rendered on the page you can exercise it from within other javascript. The function that is rendered will cause a post...
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